Re: Radio Shack Armatron Article

Yes I built one for my final project at DeVry....I used a Vic20 and an 8 bi
t to 16 bit decoder and had to build gear boxes and motors to replace the s
ingle planetary gear...I still have whats left of it and I know I have the
magazine somewhere lol...It worked but kept popping transistors I tried to
switch to relays but the Vic had a pulsed output that wouldn't trip the re
lays.

bit to 16 bit decoder and had to build gear boxes and motors to replace the
single planetary gear...I still have whats left of it and I know I have th
e magazine somewhere lol...It worked but kept popping transistors I tried
to switch to relays but the Vic had a pulsed output that wouldn't trip the
relays.
Ha...I made a PCB from that article for a university project too (around 19
95) and kept blowing transistors. I ran out of time in the term and never
did get it debugged. There must have been a bug in the PCB layout. I thin
k I have it around here somewhere too, but no idea where.
Win

It looks like it was Radio Electronics:
http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Consumer/Archive-Radio-Electronics-IDX/search.cgi?zoom_sort=0&zoom_xml=0&zoom_query=Armatron&zoom_cat []=-1&zoom_per_page
That site: http://www.americanradiohistory.com has a great collection of
old magazines. They have Popular Electronics too.
BobH

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